[thechat] ice cream songs

[Luther, Ron]

Joel Canfield asked a serious question about music stuff:

>>I wanna put together a medley of songs with the 'ice cream'
progression 
>>(I vi IV V) 


Unfortunately, Ron took a shot at answering instead ...  ;-)

>>Searching the web hasn't helped much. Ideas?


Hi Joel!

Maybe try a less generic search?  I just ran "C A minor F G progression"

through google and came back with 'Surfer Girl', 'In My Room', and 
'Don't Worry Baby' among some other interesting looking links.
(Although 
I have to admit that trying some other specific changes didn't work so
well.)

Hadn't heard it called "ice cream". Is that because you are planning a 
'Neapolitan 6th'?  Yummy!  ;-P

[Wikipedia (FWIW) seems to show the 'ice cream' change as 1-6-2-5-1.]
 
Searching "constructing musical medleys" turned up some interesting 
Theory links as well. I found the following one, apparently dealing 
with some kind of pipers and drummers competition kind of interesting 
because it talked about the need to vary rhythms, moods, and make 
tonal key changes ... very different from how I would have thought 
about building a medley:
http://www.piperanddrummer.com/features/Default.asp?articleID=5177

There was also what looked like some working notes from a VH1 class 
on dissecting and discussing a Garth Brooks medley and or generic 
medley construction that may or may not be of immediate help ... 
but sounded interesting anyway:
http://www.vh1.com/partners/vh1_music_studio/supplies/century/century-5.
html



Good Luck!  And Have Big Fun!

RonL.